Flip Of The Tongue Poem

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius. Beauty has had a specific image or ideal for the past 100 years from the help of pop culture and advertisements that women are constantly viewing daily. We can go through the different ideas of beauty through idolized women in the past who were often considered to be the ideal beautiful. With the help of makeup and the aid of different styled clothing, women were able to fit in to form into the ideal beauty.

There is a cliché quote that people say, “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders, but more specifically teenage to middle age men and women, but he writes about it in a humorous and light-hearted manner.

Sontag uses effective language in order to establish variation in her essay. She begins with the observation on the relation between culture and language, and uses logical appeals to evoke her philosophy of beauty. Beauty is power and she demonstrates this yet again by manipulating another speaker's (Cocteau's) perspective that “the privileges of beauty are immense”(215). The author states that beauty is a power that women and men have naturally and as a result, have the power to attract what they want. Sontag also uses the effects of ethos,

Similarly, Plath’s poem ‘Edge’ illustrates how patriarchy seizes the identity of woman, leaving them to be nothing but sexual entities. ‘The woman has been perfected’, society has shaped her into being socially and sexually pleasing. She has been moulded, making her ‘perfect’ to the naked eye, a ‘flower’, a ‘rose’, a ‘Greek necessity’ with no identity. In the second stanza the speaker states that the ‘body wears the smile of accomplishment’ she is now socially accepted.

From the different cultural beauty standards, to the double standards between males and females, to the dangerous ways to achieve these “ideal looks”, should these factors really define your beauty? In the essay, Pigott constantly changes the way she looks because she feels that in order for her to be defined as “beautiful”, she needed to be acknowledged by her peers and friends; in other words, she felt the need to conform herself to societal norms in order to feel “accepted”. Due to this, Pigott unknowingly wears a mask and hides her true self from the world. The societal pressure she experienced has blinded her from seeing her beauty and has lost her self-worth as a beautiful woman, as she believes that pleasing others and receiving compliments are the only factors that make her “beautiful”.

The artist does not want to influence her viewers and the message is visual as well as somewhat subliminal. Perhaps the image is meant to be a critique of censorship. The image depicts how absurd the artist think the censorship is. Instead of blurring the body, she has blurred the is face to perhaps create a change in perspective. Society has decided the showing body is unacceptable and maybe she is trying to make a mockery out of this concept. Maybe the artist has blurred her face to “protect her identity” because society feels so. Although the face is not visible, there is a radiance of confidence her. She is not ashamed by her body though other expect her to. She is breaking the norms of society. The other way this image can be interpreted is if we take it as a statement against unrealistic standards of beauty. The women in the artwork isn't what would be considered ideal by the media and magazines. The media have created unrealistic standards of beauty and maybe the image is speaking against it. The woman in the art has flaps when her body is bent. Her body is not what would others think it should be like but still she is there with confidence. The art is a slap to the face of people who want everyone to conform to set standards of

The poem “Pulled Over in Short Hills, NJ, 8:00 AM ” by Ross Gay has a theme of police brutality causing tension between people, as well as a theme of tension between races because one is in a position of power. This poem contains diction and sentence structure as well as figurative language like similes, to help create meaning to the poem. The similes Ross used are important to the meaning of the poem. The simile, “When rage grows hot as an army of red ants..” is used to contribute to the feeling of anger in the poem.

• Absolutely, beauty is a cultural construction, on another essay on page 46 title “My hips, My Caderas” by Alisa Valde, she recalls some the struggles she faced as a half White and Cuban woman with the fuller feature, having one race praise her features while the other criticized. In the African American community, the woman who is “well endowed” for lack of words are praise and admired for their physic. A woman like Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, and the most famous one off is Kim Kardashian, lately, they have been getting praised for their body figure and it’s about time, we

As stated previously, society influences our identity with how we see ourselves and how others see us. The effects of society and its stress on beauty increase because of her gender. Being a female in a culture where beauty has become deceptive, it corrupts young minds. In Autobiography of a Face Lucy even states, "When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like. "3

Feeling beautiful deals with many factors but it has become incumbent with focus being placed on the physical aspects of person Una Marson writes about beauty and how it drives many women into changing their features and making those features fit into the standard of beauty. Her poem, “Kinky Haired Blues” speaks about that notion, of women wanting to assimilate to what the norm is. Specifically women of ethnic minorities, she talks more about Black Women and the pressure for them to bleach their skin and to iron their hair. Matters such as race are at forefront of the issues in her society and of the society we currently live in today. Una Marson’s poem “Kinky Hair Blues” speaks to the idea of beauty and the standard of beauty. And how many

Beauty’s innate commentary to Society Concepts of beauty can be portrayed in everyday life. Jane Martin’s play entitled Beauty is the perfect example of how society perceives beauty and the subsequent benefits of possessing these unrealistic attributes. ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’, this is a phrase that many may relate to and Jane’s play is a representation of this, making it a commentary to society’s unrealistic views of beauty. An in depth look, at how society’s perceptions of beauty affects not only those who measure themselves up to these standards but also those who fit into the mold themselves and this will be the aim of this essay.

Clock strikes and we climb up the stairs to a balcony where the night untraces the constellations of your cheeks

This history shows how society since ages has focused on the beauty of women discussing how a woman should appear, objectifying her and setting up standards for a beautiful life for women. It is hard to follow the standards when all that is presented by the world is not hundred percent true, instead, it is a made-up need and not all women want to or need to follow these beauty standards. But however, women worry a lot about beauty that the how they appear physically, which is worthless after death and women should be prouder of herself as she is, rather than aiming to achieve a certain standard of beauty that is set up by society by the means of media where common people see models in each shape, size, color, dress, makeup, and much more. Models have a living through this looks where they die to get thin, tall, pale, long hairs but no body hairs.

It’s difficult to envision a world where idealized female imagery is not plastered everywhere, but our present circumstance is a relatively new occurrence. Before the mass media existed, our ideas of beauty were restricted to our own communities. Until the introduction of photography in 1839, people were not exposed to real-life images of faces and bodies. Most people did not even own mirrors. Today, however, we are more obsessed with our appearance than ever before. But the concern about appearance is quite normal and understandable given society’s standards. According to Jane Kilborne, “Every period of history has had its own standards of what is and is not beautiful, and every contemporary society has its own distinctive concept of the

Natural beauty, in this day and age, is a term that has many definitions because it is a controversial term. With the way people dress, act, and express themselves, it is extremely hard to find the true denotation of natural beauty. This is also true with the growing popularity in makeup in both genders. When asked to define it, people have formed their own opinions of the term along with the commonly known denotation, connotation, synonyms, and antonyms. The definition of the term also can be described and derived from my personal experiences along with others’. Though there is much evidence for and against the belief, natural beauty is more than what’s on the outside.